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NEGKTIE PASTENER. No. 540,943. Patented June '11,. 1895.

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DAVID L. BLOCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,943, dated June 11, 1 895. I 1 Application filed February 16, 1895. Serial No. 588,611. (110 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID L. BLOCK, 0 New York city, New York, have invented an Improved Necktie-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a necktie fastener which is adapted to be permanently secured to the bow and by which the latter may be interchangeably connected to a neckband or to a shield.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved necktiefastener, showing it engaged by a neckband. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line 2 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the fastener, showing it engagedby the shield; and Fig. 4:, a perspective view of the fastener, showing it detached. w

My improved necktie fastener is composed of a continuous length of bent wire, or sheet metal the different parts of which will be designated by different letters of reference for the sake of greater clearness. At its center there is formed a loop a, which is closed at the bottom and open at the top and is adapted to be engaged by the collar button A. For this purpose the loop is provided with a bulge above a contracted section a, which constitutes a spring. From the upper end of the loop a, the wire extends first upwardly and outwardly as at a thence downwardly as at 0?, and thence upwardly as at a In this way the parts a a of the wire form a pair of outer loops which are closed at the bottom but open at the top, so that the neckband or shield may be introduced into such loops through their open upper ends. From the upper end of arm a, the wire is bent inward and down ward to form an arm 0. which terminates in a small eye a.

In use a bow B, is permanently attached to the rear arms (1 0. of the fastener by slipping such arms into-the back seam B, of the bow and then stitching the bow to such arms.

The stitching is done through the eyes a and through the upper curve 0, The bow is marketed with the fastener thus permanently attached, and may thus be readily secured to either a neckband O, or a shield D, which are slipped from above into the outer loops formed by the arms a a In this way the owner of a tie may wear it with either standing collars or with turned down collars or negligee shirts by simply interchanging the band C, for the shield D. By making the outer loops open at the top the introduction of a band or shield is, of course. greatly facilitated. The arms a besides facilitating the attachment of the fastener to the bow, are bent forward at their lower ends and thus have the additional function of acting as springs, that exert a pressure against the neckband or shield, and prevent its spontaneous displacement.

What I claim is 4 A necktie fastener composed of a central loop, adapted for the reception of a collar button, a pair of outer loops adapted for-the reception of a shield or neckband, and a pair of forwardly bent spring arms that are adapted to exert a pressure against such shield or neckband, substantially as specified.

DAVID L. BLOCK. Witnesses:

WILLIAM SoHULz, F. v. BRIESEN. 

